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Friday, October 08, 2010

Game Day—Breaking the Ice in St. Louis—UPDATED

Tonight, BU begins regular season play, facing the Wisconsin Badgers in the opening round of the Warrior Ice Breaker Tournamentat the Scottrade Center in St. Louis. Terriers play in the second game of the evening, scheduled for a 8:30 p.m. CT, 9:30 p.m. ET start. They’ll play either Notre Dame or Holy Cross in the finals on Sunday.

This is the second time in three seasons that BU plays in this event. In 2008-09, the Terriers hosted the Ice Breaker at Agganis Arena where a 5-1 win over North Dakotaand a 2-1 win over Michigan Stateearned the team the first of seven championships en route to the national title.

BU and Wisconsin have met 14 times over the years. The first game was the Terriers' 4-1 win the semifinals of the 1972 NCAA tournament. The most recent was the Badgers' 3-2 in the championship game of the 2001 Badger Classic. BU's record in the series is 14-8-6.

► If you’re signing up for the Hockey Prime Time pay-per-view Webcasts of the Icebreaker (4 games for $9.95), be aware that the games are only shown live. There will not be any archived viewings.

►USCHO has completed its season preview with Dave Hendrickson's and Jim Connelly's look at Hockey East, which picks the Terriers fourth, exactly as in the preseason coaches' poll. The preview of BU is here.

►The Boston Hockey Blog reported on Thursday that Vinny Saponari, dismissed from the Terrier team last Spring will enroll at Boston College in the fall of 2011 after spending the current season in the USHL with Dubuque.

Looking backFormer BU defenseman David Lopresti has joined the staff of ex-Terrier Matt Wright at New Hampton School. Wright, who scored the final college hockey goal at the old Boston Garden in 1995 in BU’s 3-2 win over Providence in the Hockey East championship game, is in his second year at New Hampton.